Dear Owen, Thank you, it's such an honor to get a reply directly from you. I think my issue is faith in myself and in the process. I've read the book (some chapters more than once). I think maybe I just needed to hear it again in a different way to help me "get" it. I appreciate the encouragement. I've seen Open Space work in other scenarios and I just need to trust that people will bring the topics that they care about. But I keep thinking I have to "do" something to make it work, to allow people to bring questions or topics like "How can we lead in a 50K Conglomerate?" and not just some engineering topic that they had to spend a week preparing a powerpoint based on their prior experience, which is the "box".
It's like an ugly itch in the brain, but is there some way to help me quiet it down? I keep seeing this image of me opening the space and then no one filling in any topic cards, or just a few that didn't get put in the first tracks. Has anyone had experience in a similar situation for 30-50 engineers in a single department but working on different projects? Harold * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist